RVD explains how WWE Legends deal affects his AEW usage

While appearing on the Cheap Heat Productions Podcast, Rob Van Dam explained how being under a WWE Legends contract affects how AEW is able to utilize him.

RVD has wrestled six AEW matches, sporadically appearing for the promotion since August 2023. He told Cheap Heat Productions that — while he’s able to wrestle for AEW — his Legends deal with WWE means that AEW could not put him in a video game or make an RVD action figure.

“So I’m not under contract with AEW. I sign a per-match contract with them, which I’ve done five, maybe six times,” RVD said. “And it’s only wrestling. The first time that I talked to Tony Khan about doing this, a factor was that I still have a WWE Legends deal. So my use to AEW would be limited — as far as, like, they can’t put me on video games, action figures, stuff like that. So you could say it’s limited on both ends — or you could say I got both ends going, best of both worlds. Or you could just say RVD does whatever he wants.”

RVD’s most recent match for AEW was on the April 20 edition of Collision earlier this year.

A WWE Hall of Famer, RVD made an appearance on WWE programming last month when SmackDown moved back to USA Network. He was one of several legends shown in the crowd.